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When parents struggle to model healthy digital boundaries for adult children

My college-age kids come home for breaks and we all just sit around looking at our phones instead of talking and I want to suggest phone-free meals but I'm the worst offender with work emails and I don't know how to address it without being hypocritical.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to create meaningful connection is undermined by the leader's own inability to embody the change they wish to see.

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